Born in a House of Glass (eBook)

Chinenye Emezie (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
400 Seiten
Dundurn Press (Verlag)
978-1-4597-5426-3 (ISBN)

Infos

As Udonwa grows, her hidden family history changes her forever.Let me tell you a story. It's about a war. This war is not the type fought with guns and machetes. It is a family type. A silent war. The type fought in the heart. It began long before I was formed.Udonwa's family is at war - a war of relationships, played out under the tyranny of a monster dad. Age twelve, Udonwa has a peculiar love for her father, Reverend Leonard Ilechukwu, who favours her but beats his wife and his other children. She sees his good side: after all, he pays the school fees, and tells her that she, named "e;the peaceful child,"e; is the one most likely to become a doctor.When her newly married eldest sister suddenly takes her from their family compound in Iruama, Nigeria, to live with her in Awka, Udonwa experiences violence first-hand. Later, pieces of a sinister picture emerge that shake her life to the core. No longer the person she thought she was, Udonwa launches into a period of extreme change, and parts of her life spiral into chaos as she finds herself torn between her love for her father and an underlying need to free herself. This vivid family saga is engrossing, deeply unsettling, and finally uplifting.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.7.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Schlagworte: African fiction • betrayal • Books on femininity • Books on infertility • Books on marriage dynamics • Books on masculinity • Books on sibling rivalry • Books with African parables • Books with domestic abuse • Chinenye Emezie Writer • Dark Secrets • deceit • emotional books • Familial Relationships • Family Saga • Gender stereotypes • Lies • Nigerian-Canadian Writers • Nigerian-South African Writer • Sexuality in African Fiction
• ISBN-10: 1-4597-5426-3 / 1459754263
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4597-5426-3 / 9781459754263